Lose Your Counterbalance: Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
All of the standing balance poses have a counterbalance – a spot where it’s easy to stay upright because you’ve fallen away from the centre line. Most often it involves the standing leg thighbone, high in the hip socket. Let it drop out to the side, and the balance is easier. The problem is, you’re […]
Find your working place in hamstring Stretches: Five Minute Yoga Challenge
The Five-Minute Yoga Challenge started as a response to two of Gretchen Rubin’s Secrets of Adulthood: “What you do EVERY DAY matters more than what you do ONCE IN A WHILE,” and “By doing a little bit each day, you can get a lot accomplished.” That, in a nutshell, is the philosophy of My Five […]
Withdraw your eyes, quiet your mind: Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
As a species, we humans are always on the lookout. Sight dominates all of our other senses and is largely responsible for the way we perceive the world – that aggregate of impressions which we tellingly call our “point of view. As long as we’re gathering visual information, our brains are busy. So it stands […]
Find Your Bungee Cord: Five-Minute Yoga Challenge
The Five-Minute Yoga Challenge started as a response to two of Gretchen Rubin’s Rules for Adulthood: “What you do EVERY DAY matters more than what you do ONCE IN A WHILE,” and “By doing a little bit each day, you can get a lot accomplished.” That, in a nutshell, is the philosophy of My Five […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: step forward from downward dog
In the world of yoga, I think of myself as a civilian. When I started taking classes, I was not a dancer, a gymnast, a figure skater, a personal trainer or an aerobics instructor. As a child I tried cartwheels, but I never stood on my hands. I had no speed and not much strength. […]
Five-Minute Yoga Challenge: greet your feet in the foot-work series
When we’re babies, most of us can suck our toes. As adults, we’re much less intimate with our feet. Yes, there’s a greater distance between brain and big toe, but we add to our disassociation with years spent walking on flat surfaces in rigid shoes. Why worry? Because it’s not age alone that robs us […]